Clifton Care Center

While this nursing home's overall grade was as bad as it gets, it fared pretty well in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of B+ for that category, which is one of our better scores. Our inspection ratings are based on many pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are a key item to look for on these inspections. Most importantly, you should avoid facilities with severe deficiencies associated with endangerment of patients. This nursing home was assessed 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered severe. This means that the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies to pose an imminent risk to patient safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.

This nursing home also didn't rate poorly in the category of long-term care. In fact, we awarded it a C in that category, which is another one of its higher scores. In the area of long-term care, we assess the amount of care offered by a nursing home, rather than more sophisticated services. One of the criteria we considered in addition to nurse's aid hours is vaccinations. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccination to 91.04762 percent of its patients. Fortunately, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This facility's next best category was nursing, but even there it received a grade of just D. This is still a well below average grade. Nursing ratings are based largely on levels of nurse staffing. This facility averaged a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing scores. This place fared well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.

The final category we rated was short-term care. We gave it an F for this category, which is a bottom of the barrel score. In the area of short-term care, we endeavor to evaluate measures of a facility's rehabilitation. We analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and various therapists. With its score in this area, we were not stunned to learn that this nursing home is well below average in terms of the number of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its patients based on the measures we assessed. Frankly, this was about what we expected here. The last datapoint we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 4.3 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these poor metrics doomed this facility's short-term care grade.